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Urban Societal Needs and Sustainability in Zambia
Published in Uday Chatterjee, Arindam Biswas, Jenia Mukherjee, Dinabandhu Mahata, Sustainable Urbanism in Developing Countries, 2022
Anthony Mushinge, Ephraim Kabunda Munshifwa, Roy Alexander Chileshe, Niraj Jain
Land hoarding and speculation is very common in urban areas in Zambia (Mushinge et al., 2019). Land hoarding refers to a situation where a person keeps many parcels of land despite having no intention of developing or selling them (Mark and Mpandikizi, 2013). Land speculation, on the other hand, refers to a situation where someone keeps on acquiring many parcels of land with the intention of selling them at a high price (Mark and Mpandikizi, 2013). The speculators wait to benefit from increase in land values due to market forces of demand and supply (Mark and Mpandikizi, 2013). Land hoarding and speculation leads to artificial shortages of land (Civic Forum on Housing and Habitat, 2015) and in many cases makes it difficult for those with less money and power to access this land. In other words, the rich and powerful get the land while the low-income earners squat on the remaining spaces, often in the periphery of cities or environmentally weak sites.
Quantity Surveying and Valuation
Published in P.K. Jayasree, K Balan, V Rani, Practical Civil Engineering, 2021
P.K. Jayasree, K Balan, V Rani
Lease: A lease is a transfer by the lessee of the right to enjoyment (exclusive possession) of that property for a certain period of time subject to the terms of the lease agreement.For a fixed period (term) a lease grants exclusive possession.A lease creates a land interest that can be transferred to the leasee during the lease period.A lease may be transferred (assigned) to another party and binding on a new land owner if registered on the title.A lease cannot be revoked (other than under any conditions laid down in the lease (e.g. A clause for redevelopment)).
Zoning and zone mapping
Published in Catherine Dawson, A–Z of Digital Research Methods, 2019
Zoning refers to the dividing of land or water into zones, or the assigning of zones onto land or water, for planning and/or management purposes. It is used in land-use planning; urban planning and development; transportation systems; commerce, business and taxation; and in environmental monitoring, management and research, for example. In the UK, zoning is also a method of measuring retail premises to determine and compare their value. Zone mapping is the act of physically mapping out zones or visualising zones or boundaries. Although zoning and zone mapping have a long pre-digital history (see Moga, 2017 for a good example of the history of zone mapping in American cities and Porter and Demeritt, 2012 for a history of Flood Mapping in the UK) it has been included in this book because digitisation and technological developments in visualisation and mapping tools are encouraging and facilitating rapid advances in the field. For example, developments in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) enable researchers to create, store, manage, share, analyse, visualise and publish vast amounts of geographic data (Chapter 21); developments in the Global Positioning System (GPS) enable more accurate and detailed mapping, positioning and navigation; and developments in remote sensing (satellite, aircraft and laser-based technologies) enable researchers to obtain vast amounts of data without the need to visit a particular site (see Chapter 49 for more information about sensor-based methods).
Sustainable land use as panacea for efficient households’ trips in Osun State Nigeria
Published in Cogent Engineering, 2023
Samuel Babatunde Adedotun, Rafiu Babatunde Ibrahim, Dele Sunday Ogundahunsi, Kola Ewedairo
Land use planning sometimes referred to as Physical planning, is concerned with the spatial arrangement (organization) of urban and rural land uses for the purpose of creating functionally efficient, economic and aesthetically pleasing physical environment for living, working, circulation and recreation (Obateru, 1986). Physical planning attempts to solve problems of rural and urban growth and decay. Precisely, it deals with the future physical form and structure of towns and cities. By physical form is meant their spatial layout and pattern of vertical growth. By physical structure is meant the spatial pattern or arrangement of urban land uses on a functional basis. The ultimate aim which urban planning attempts to achieve through the physical form and structure of urban settlement is the creation of functionally efficient physical environment for living, working, circulation and recreation.
Quantitative study of water impact on land value in Jakarta
Published in Urban Water Journal, 2023
Ahmad Gamal, Lailatul Rohmah, Cynthia Adelina Perangin Angin, Widya Laksmi Larasati, Ahmad Aki Muhaimin, Risty Khoirunisa, Dwinanti Rika Marthanty
Location aspect is an essential determinant of a land value. This aspect contains micro and macro elements, as well as specific non-monetary factors. The micro elements include the supply, demand, and surrounding environment, while macro elements include technology, culture, taxes, governance policy, demographics, and globalization (Rymarzak and Siemin´ska’s, 2012). Meanwhile the specific non-monetary factors are human resources, telecommunications, and pollution hazards (Rymarzak & Siemin’ska, 2012). Land value is significantly influenced by location, or more particularly, geographic position. People are always eager to live in the most desirable and practical places (Thiwanka & Wickramaarachchi 2022). Krajewska, Szo´nska, and Siemi´nska (2021) indicated that land with well-specified development conditions has higher values than land without development conditions.
A review of approaches to land use changes modeling
Published in Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal, 2019
One of the most popular econometric models is the EMPIRIC model (Hill 1965) built in the 1960s, which was used as a simple tool for modeling metropolitan structures (Briassoulis 2000). The basic economic land use model posits a landowner's land use decision as a profit-maximizing decision in which the landowner chooses the productive use of the land that maximizes the landowner's net returns (National Research Council 2013). Walker (2004), for example, assessed the usability of von Thünen's model for studying LUC in the Amazon basin. The author considers the adjustments that would have to be made to existing theory to make it more useful to the empirical issues (Walker 2004). Diogo et al. (2015) presented an economic framework for land use modeling in order to account for the causal relationship between economic decisions and resultant spatial patterns of land use. Irwin and Geoghegan (2001) offered examples of spatially explicit economic modeling of LUC to further illustrate some of the benefits of a spatially explicit, economic modeling approach. They demonstrated that a limitation of this model is that it only predicts the spatial distribution of conversion probabilities and does not account for the quantitative aspects of development that might occur in any given period.